Detectives open investigation into 'suspicious' Edmonton flat fire (From Enfield Independent)
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Detectives open investigation into 'suspicious' Edmonton flat fire
3:34pm Wednesday 30th May 2012 in News
By David Hardiman, Reporter
The front door of the flat has been boarded up and smoke damage is visible.
Police are treating an early morning Edmonton flat fire which left a woman needing treatment for smoke inhalation as suspicious.
Firefighters had to rescue a woman from the blaze in the first-floor maisonette in Jeremy’s Green at around 3am yesterday after she became trapped inside.
Officers from Edmonton CID, who are appealing for witnesses, say the cause of the fire is unexplained and are treating it as suspicious.
A neighbour, who did not want to be named, told the Enfield Independent that the fire had been started when rubbish was piled outside the front door to the flat and petrol poured on top, trapping the woman who had just moved into the area inside.
It took more than 20 firefighters one and a half hours to bring the fire under control. No arrests have been made in connection with the incident.
